How to Disable and Enable Spell Check and Autocorrect in Windows Notepad

Microsoft has recently added Spell Check and Autocorrect features to Windows’ default Notepad text editor. The new feature is automatically enabled in the updated Notepad. If you don’t want Spell Check to check your spelling and underline the mistaken words and if you don’t want Autocorrect to automatically correct the mistakes as you are typing, you can disable them.

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How to Save Google Docs, Sheets, Slides File to Folder on Google Drive

When you open Google Drive in a web browser on your laptop and create a new file using the Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms web apps, it is automatically saved in the root of Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive). If you want to change the Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, or Forms file save location and save it to a specific folder on Google Drive, there are two ways to do that. You can:

  • select the Google Drive folder before creating the file, or
  • move the file to the folder after the file creation.

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How to Resize Photos and Image Files on iPhone Using Shortcuts, Free and Without 3rd Party App?

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Resize Photos Shortcuts script on iPhone. Resize Image Files script is similar.

Here’s how you can resize or reduce dimensions of photos and images from your iPhone’s Photos and Files apps and consequentially reduce their file sizes. You can do that using Shortcuts scripts – simply, for free, and without installing 3rd party apps.

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Gmail App on Android: Can You Set ‘All Inboxes’ as Default View Permanently?

Unfortunately, the Gmail app on Android doesn’t let you permanently set All Inboxes as the default view when you open the app. Instead, the default is always the Primary inbox. If you set the view to see emails in All Inboxes, close the Gmail app at some point, and open it up again, the app will forget your choice and take you to the Primary inbox view instead.

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How to Auto-Sync Safari and Chrome Bookmarks on iPhone (with help of PC)?

Chrome is my iPhone and PC web browser of choice. For some time, I was looking for a solution to automatically sync bookmarks of Safari and Chrome web-browsers on my iPhone. Unsuccessfully. When using iPhone’s default Safari iOS app, I had had to manually send web pages (I wanted to keep and open later in Chrome) to Chrome bookmarks using the Safari’s share option.

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